Marooned flood victims in the village of Daya Chokha Gharbi reaching for food supplies thrown down from an army helicopter near Kot Adu in southern Punjab's Muzaffargarh district on 7 August, 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersA posed portrait of residents from the same village raising their hands in the air and yelling the traditional Islamic cheer, 'Allah u Akbar,' or 'God is Great,' in the same location nearly one year laterPhotograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersInamullah, 4, sits on top of furniture and household items recovered in his family courtyard hours after they returned to their home when floodwaters started receding, in Nowshera, north-west Pakistan, 1 August 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
Inamullah, 5, poses for a portrait in the same courtyard. 'I remember the water, it took my toys. I miss them the most' Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersResidents returning to the town of Nowshera, north-west Pakistan, as flood waters started to recede, 1 August 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersA man and boy ride a horse and cart past the same location almost a year after the floods ravaged a fifth of the countryPhotograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersNewborn twins lying in the cabin of an army helicopter after they were evacuated from their flooded village of Mooza Dogar Klasra, 7 August 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersThe same twin boys, Mohammad Usman (L) and Muhammed Ruhman nearly one year later in the arms of their mother Parveen. The twins' father Javed Iqbal said: 'There has been less work after the floods and I have two more mouths to feed'Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersIkramullah, 37, as he returns to his pen to find his livestock killed from the 2010 flood waters in Nowshera, 1 August 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersIkramullah, 38, sits in front of the same brick wall, almost a year later. 'Look at my calloused hands, I have been forced into labour,' he said. 'Businesses have shut down, there is no work here.' Ikramullah and his 25-member family survived by taking refuge on a nearby hilltop Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersA family points towards partially submerged houses while taking refuge on high ground overlooking the flooded town of Nowshera, 31 July 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersThe same vantage point nearly a year later, 27 July 2011Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersKareen Bkhush, aged about 75, with his sons as they tried to salvage their wheat and food supplies from a flooded storage facility in Khan Ghar, in southern Punjab's Muzaffargarh district, 13 August 2010Photograph: Adrees Latif/ReutersBkhush poses for a portrait in the same location one year later. 'I have not seen such flooding in my lifetime. The water came and it took everything,' said Bkhush, a father of ten. 'I had to sell my daughters' jewellery to survive,' he saidPhotograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
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